Tassilo Horn<address@hidden> wrote:
BTW suggest to replace the common footnote by the org's footnotes, remove the
prefix then, leave some aliases in org-mode for backward-compatibility.
Well, I don't have a strong opinion on that. But currently
org-footnote.el is not very good when writing mails, because it places
footnotes at the end of a buffer. If there's a signature, then
footnotes are in that and likely to be removed by people replying to
your mail.
How does footnote.el find the signature? I assumed before that
signatures are free-form and therefore unfindable algorithmically, but
that seems to be a mistake on my part. If that's the case, the
mechanism can be grafted into org-footnote.el, perhaps with an expanded
meaning of org-footnote-placement: in addition to nil or a string, it
can be a symbol, say 'before-signature, and that can be set in an appropriate
mail composition hook.
Nick